AMENHOTED III kv35
NOW IDENTIFIED AS TUT'S GRANDFATHER, AMENHOTEP III (BELOW AND AT RIGHT) RULED IN SPIENDOR SOME 3,400 YEARS AGO. HIS MUMMY WAS BURIED WITH A WEALTH OF GOODS. SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS LATER, PRIESTS SEEKING TO PROTECT SUCH ROYAL REMAINS FROM TOMB ROBBERS WRAPPED THE MUMMIES IN FRESH LINENS AND REBURIED THEM IN GROUPS. AMENHOTEP III'S BODY WAS FOUND IN 1898 HIDDEN ALONG WITH MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER ROYALS IN KV35, THE TOMB OF HIS OWN GRANDFATHER, AMENHOTEP II.